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How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny.

— Clifford D. Simak Way Station (1963)

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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

City (1952)

There was so much knowledge in the galaxy and he knew so little of it, understood so little of the little that he knew.

Way Station (1963)

The wolf was smiling at him, and he had never known that a wolf could smile.

Highway of Eternity (1986)

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand.

Way Station (1963)

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.

Time and Again (1951)

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